THE PROGRAM OF THE BLOC U7 



Most of these men appeared before meetings 

 of the Bloc upon invitation to discuss specific 

 measures. Many of them conferred with mem- 

 bers frequently in respect to legislation. 



Supplementing the advice of these leaders 

 the members of the Bloc were in constant touch 

 with the representatives of farm organizations 

 located at Washington, prominent among whom 

 may be named Gray Silver, of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation; Dr. T. C. Atkeson, 

 of the National Grange ; Charles A. Lyman, of 

 the National Board of Farm Organizations; 

 Charles Holman, of the National Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Federation and many others. At the 

 very outset, Senator Kenyon, the Bloc leader, 

 requested the support and advice of all who 

 were in close touch with farmers' needs. 



A long list of proposals of various sorts by 

 various individuals in Congress were attributed 

 to the Bloc which in reality were never dis- 

 cussed or considered by the group at all. Any 

 agricultural measure that received favorable 

 comment was likely to be called a product of 

 the Bloc even though it was proposed by some 

 one in no wise connected with the group. In 

 many instances group action which bore no re- 

 lation whatever to the program of the agricul- 



